Re: Newbie having trouble with installation

2002-02-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:36:12PM -0500, Ed Raskay wrote: > Package: CD > Version: 2.2r4 > SOmeone suggested that even though the BIOS says I can boot off a CD (Award > Bios), I shoud try loading a driver first. I loaded DOS and installed a > driver for the CDRom. This appeared to work. I would

Re: Building custom kernel based off stock debian kernel

2002-02-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 02:33:43PM +1030, Tom Cook wrote: > I think I see what Nick wants, because I kinda wanna do the same > thing. I have compiled any number of kernels before, and know what I > am doing. But I am quite happy with the kernel I have straight out of > the box except that I need

Re: video card

2002-02-07 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:56:52PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I plan to buy a computer equipped with a processor AMD Athlon xp 1600+. > My vendor suggest me to use the video card ATI expert 2000 > with linux (my dist is potato 2.2r2 with xfree 3 ) > There is a lot of drivers ATI in the l

Re: video card

2002-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07 Feb 2002 18:18:43 -0500 Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Of course if you just want good 2D, you probably don't have anything to > worry about, but if that's all you're wanting then instead of spending > all that money, just go grab a second hand Matrox card off of Ebay, and > you'll

woody and gcc 3.0 unresolved symbol "new" with c++ program

2002-02-07 Thread hanasaki
I am getting the following errors when gcc links the program I am compiling. What libs do I need to make the linker happy? errors: /tmp/ccgPzIMj.o: In function `main': /tmp/ccgPzIMj.o(.text+0xf): undefined reference to `operator new(unsigned)' /tmp/ccgPzIMj.o(.text+0x3a): undefined reference to

mail -v user@host.com // HOW TO MAKE AN ATTACHMENT..

2002-02-07 Thread louie miranda
Hi, i was just wondering how to attach(as in attached file) w/in a mail. using.. `mail` command only on linux. I try, mail -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] < file.txt but it paste it over the msg window only.. how are u going to attach(as in attachment to an email). louie miranda (axis0.ath.cx)

Re: 2.4.17 ?

2002-02-07 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 08:51:03PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote: | Okay. I have 2.2r5 coming but have a USB keyboard too. So where can | I find the 2.4.17 Kernel? Searched | ftp://ftp.debian.org and ftp://ftp.us.debian.org from top to bottom. http://packages.debian.org/testing/base/kernel-image-

potato web browsers

2002-02-07 Thread will trillich
i know that somewhere out there someone has concocted a list of potato-friendly x-window-system web browsers. nice comparison table. relative functionality and speed. utility. bugginess. searching at google finds wy too many not-even-close pages. so, what browsers are available as potato-frie

2.4.17 ?

2002-02-07 Thread Bruce Burhans
Okay. I have 2.2r5 coming but have a USB keyboard too. So where can I find the 2.4.17 Kernel? Searched ftp://ftp.debian.org and ftp://ftp.us.debian.org from top to bottom. Can I just substitute the new Kernel for the old one during installation? If my experience follows Ray's, I won't have

Re: "Simple" package installing

2002-02-07 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 02:52:27PM +, Alex Hunsley wrote: > Towards the end of a Debian install, you're offered to install > extra software packages, in Simple or Advanced mode. Advanced > mode just launches dselect, which can be done easily at any > time, but is there any way for me to launch

ifup eth0 -- but no connection! argh...

2002-02-07 Thread will trillich
3c509 won't connect -- how do i poke and prod to find out what's needed? okay, i inherited this skanky acer (amd k6) and i've got a 3c509 ethernet card in there -- plus a network everywhere card as well (nc100?). booted under windows, i can get to the 'net through the network everywhere card; rest

Re: Auctex/LaTeX/Emacs problem

2002-02-07 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lo, on Monday, February 4, Ryan Claycamp did write: > > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:08:52PM -0600, Richard Cobbe wrote: > > > Lo, on Sunday, February 3, Ryan Claycamp did write: > > > > > > > I have lost the color markings in xemacs when I edit a LaTeX

Re: dual boot Debian computer

2002-02-07 Thread Tom Cook
The way I would do this would be: (1) Install potato in a set of partitions (however you like to set up your partitions). Make sure you use a separate partition for /boot, of at least 20Mb (I'd use 50). Don't fuss too much about the lilo configuration, as it won't be used except to perform reboo

Computer testing Services Audit

2002-02-07 Thread Bare Associates International
Dear Friend My name is Ken Topping; I'm a Shopper Coordinator with (BAI), Bare Associates International, contacting you regarding a project I thought you might be interested in. IF NONE OF THE LOCATIONS BELOW ARE CONVENIENT FOR YOU TO SHOP, PLEASE DO

Re: Building custom kernel based off stock debian kernel

2002-02-07 Thread Tom Cook
I think I see what Nick wants, because I kinda wanna do the same thing. I have compiled any number of kernels before, and know what I am doing. But I am quite happy with the kernel I have straight out of the box except that I need to apply a patch to my network card driver. So I have to complete

Re: installing potato with MS Natural KB Pro USB

2002-02-07 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:31:24PM -0500, Ray Bowles wrote: | Anyone know why I wouldn't be able to intall potato using a MS Natural KB | Pro (I also have a wireless Intellimouse Pro) both are USB I disconnected | the mouse with the same result. they work under progeny and redhat so it | must be sp

Re: SpamBouncer

2002-02-07 Thread Craig Dickson
begin Blars Blarson quotation: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:52:03AM -0500, stan wrote: > >| Anyone know if SpamBouncer www.spambouncer.org is being mainatined? > >dunno > > Me neither. Since what it does is bombard the victim the spam

Newbie having trouble with installation

2002-02-07 Thread Ed Raskay
Package: CD Version: 2.2r4 flavor: vanilla architecture: i386 model: 200mhz pentium-mmx pc - put together with a lot of stuff laying around memory: 50M scsi:nope cd-rom: ATAPI Bare system Been trying (off and on) for about a month to get this installed. First problem Tried to install off

Re: how do u do this??

2002-02-07 Thread David Moore
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 20:35, dman wrote: > > Some people say 'mpeg' (or what's it called?) is far superior but it > can't be packaged due to licensing issues. If you mean mplayer, it's because the authors discourage binary distribution of mplayer due to all the system-specific compile-time opti

installing potato with MS Natural KB Pro USB

2002-02-07 Thread Ray Bowles
Anyone know why I wouldn't be able to intall potato using a MS Natural KB Pro (I also have a wireless Intellimouse Pro) both are USB I disconnected the mouse with the same result. they work under progeny and redhat so it must be specific to Potato. I am able to navigat the boot screens like the hel

Re: Netscape displaying everything internally :-( lynx too :-(

2002-02-07 Thread Andreas Goesele
Oh no, I thought I would switch to lynx, just to find out, that lynx now too displays binary files instead of downloading and saving them. I guess my mailcap file got corrupted. How can I get back to a sensible mailcap file? Or is there another explanation of this behavior of Netscape *and* lynx?

Re: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ2002 Àü±¹ÆÇ ¾È³»

2002-02-07 Thread Bruce Burhans
- Original Message - From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ2002 Àü±¹ÆÇ ¾È³» > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:09:44PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote: > | From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:17:37PM

Re: SpamBouncer

2002-02-07 Thread stan
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 09:20:35PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 05:57:02PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: > | In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > | >On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:52:03AM -0500, stan wrote: > | >| Anyone know if SpamBouncer www.spambouncer.org is bei

Re: SpamBouncer

2002-02-07 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 05:57:02PM -0800, Blars Blarson wrote: | In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | >On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:52:03AM -0500, stan wrote: | >| Anyone know if SpamBouncer www.spambouncer.org is being mainatined? | >dunno | | Me neither. Since what it does i

Re: dual boot Debian computer

2002-02-07 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 05:25:00PM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote: | I want to rearrange my computer so that I can dual boot Patato and Woody. | I want a separate partition for each, so that I can have a full set of | appropriate software for each. Just be sure that any modules (in /lib/modules) for

voodoo 3500 tv and v4l

2002-02-07 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
How do I get TV and Radio to work in Linux with my Voodoo 3500 TV card? I compiled V4L into the 2.4.18 kernel. Do I also need to compile I2C support? Do I need bttv if I use mplayer? Do I need any other options in Video 4 LInux kernel config? Which, if any, radio adapter do I use the kernel con

pdnsd: disk cache file error

2002-02-07 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Hello: As of recent, I am seeing that the pdnsd.cache file in /var/cache/pdnsd is not growing. Above and over that, while pdnsd is started, it spews out this error inside /var/log/syslog: Feb 8 06:38:29 localhost pdnsd[366]: pdnsd-1.1.7 starting. Feb 8 06:38:29 localhost pdnsd[366

Re: Installing a package interactively

2002-02-07 Thread Jim Woodruff
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > Try this first: > dpkg-reconfigure debconf > And try changing the notify level to something other than non-interactive > (I suggest medium normally). > > After that, you should be able to dpkg -i the compaq debs and then > dpkg-reconfig

Re: SpamBouncer

2002-02-07 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:52:03AM -0500, stan wrote: >| Anyone know if SpamBouncer www.spambouncer.org is being mainatined? >dunno Me neither. Since what it does is bombard the victim the spammer forged in the headers, hopfully it's dead

Netscape displaying everything internally :-(

2002-02-07 Thread Andreas Goesele
Hi, suddenly Netscape started to display everything internally. Even if Preferences -> Netscape -> Application would say for some file type "unknown" or "download". The problem started after my last woody upgrade, don't know whether it's related to this upgrade. Any suggestion, how I could go ba

Re: how do u do this??

2002-02-07 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:47:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Can you play vcd on PC? Yes, if by "PC" you mean x86 class system with Debian on it. | If can how? and what do I have to do to play it? What program do I | have to download??? apt-get install xine-ui Some people say 'mpeg' (or

Re: [±¤°í] CD¹øÈ£ºÎ 2002 Àü±¹ÆÇ ¾È³»

2002-02-07 Thread dman
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 07:09:44PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote: | From: "dman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | > On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 03:17:37PM -0800, Bruce Burhans wrote: [...] | > | On Outlook Express, if you even preview those things, they open | > | Internet Explorer and take you to a website somewher

dual boot Debian computer

2002-02-07 Thread Paul E Condon
I want to rearrange my computer so that I can dual boot Patato and Woody. I want a separate partition for each, so that I can have a full set of appropriate software for each. I need advice on how to set up partitions, and how to configure lilo, etc. I've looked at my /etc/lilo.conf, which was cr

kernel link failure applies to which kernel?

2002-02-07 Thread Tim Olsen
I got the following message today while upgrading to the latest binutils in woody: Kernel link failure info x x x x You may experience problems linking older (and some ne

Re: how do u do this??

2002-02-07 Thread Dmitriy
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:47:15PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Can you play vcd on PC? If can how? and what do I have to do to play it? >What program do I have to download??? Try Xine. `apt-get install xine-ui` if you are in unstable. -- GPG key-id: 1024D/DF04A255

cfdisk, fdisk, and mke2fs: "file size limit exceeded"

2002-02-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
I'm trying to replace a pair of 30G drives in a RAID0 configuration with a pair of 60s so I'll be able to do RAID1 instead. However, I keep getting "file size limit exceeded" errors whenever I: - Try to write a configuration with more than 2 logical partitions using cfdisk or fdisk (although the

Re: Building custom kernel based off stock debian kernel

2002-02-07 Thread Faheem Mitha
On 7 Feb 2002, Nick Jennings wrote: > *Please CC me in the response as I am not subscribed to debian-user* > > Hello. > > I'd like to make a slight customization to the debian kernel. I do not > understand the debian packing scheme for getting the complete source > to the DEBIAN linux kernel

Woody, or wouldn't he?

2002-02-07 Thread Guy
Hello, I use Debian because I think that it is more stable than any other distro. It is more stable because (I believe) it has a better package management system and the debian software goes through more rigorous testing before it is released. To me, this is more important than being on the cut

Kernel 2.4.17 and Alsa driver 0.5.12

2002-02-07 Thread Deva Seetharam
Hi All, can alsa driver 0.5.12a be run with kernel 2.4.17? the doc talks only about 2.0 and 2.2 kernels? Are they upward compatible or are there any known problems? thanks, deva Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http:/

Can't un/install session manager

2002-02-07 Thread Kent West
While uninstalling gdm, the process hung, and I stupidly Ctrl-C'd it and then tried again. After that, I've been unable to uninstall or reinstall xdm, gdm, or wdm. Here's the type errors I'm getting: Setting up gdm (2.2.5.3-2) ... dpkg: error processing gdm (--configure): subprocess post-installa

how do u do this??

2002-02-07 Thread BaBeBoYxSKrYbLE
Can you play vcd on PC? If can how? and what do I have to do to play it? What program do I have to download???

Re: Installing a package interactively

2002-02-07 Thread Jim Woodruff
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > How is debconf configured for you -- which front end? > dpkg-reconfigure debconf > The packages need to interact with the user via debconf, so if you have > debconf configured non-interactive, that's the problem... Thank you, I'll correct this. > I'

Re: puzzling NFS problem

2002-02-07 Thread Henry House
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:25:07PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote: [...] > A workaround for this was to increase the number of nfsd instances on > the server, set in one of the nfs scripts in /etc/init.d. I can't > remember what the line was, and I haven't got nfs installed anymore, but > look for

Re: command line font size ?

2002-02-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 09:45:36AM +1030, Thomas Cook wrote: > Mike McCue wrote: > > > > A while back I saw a friend's ZipSlack install, and the font he had on the > > command line was a little smaller than that of my command line on my debian > > install. Is there a way to change the font of the

Re: puzzling NFS problem

2002-02-07 Thread Jonathan Matthews
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 02:54:03PM -0800, Henry House wrote: > In the last few days, I've had an intermittent problem with a mail server > that has /home mounted over NFS and delivers mail directly to user's > directories. The following message appears over and over in the kernel log: > Feb

Re: video card

2002-02-07 Thread Sean
I cannot speak from personal experience, but from the plethora of horrible stories I've read on mailing lists and websites about the general hella-crappiness of ati drivers (and no, I'm not just referencing the thread that was featured on hardocp a while ago), I would not suggest an ati card to any

Re: command line font size ?

2002-02-07 Thread Thomas Cook
Mike McCue wrote: > > A while back I saw a friend's ZipSlack install, and the font he had on the > command line was a little smaller than that of my command line on my debian > install. Is there a way to change the font of the command line in Debian ? > (Can't fit much on this 14" screen... ) I

Re: Installing a package interactively

2002-02-07 Thread Jim Woodruff
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Wow, you got nice machine. Thank you > > $ apt-cache show ccc cxx > > W: Unable to locate package ccc > W: Unable to locate package cxx > > There is no package called ccc and cxx in Debian, as I see it. You will find them in the unstable contrib section.

puzzling NFS problem

2002-02-07 Thread Henry House
In the last few days, I've had an intermittent problem with a mail server that has /home mounted over NFS and delivers mail directly to user's directories. The following message appears over and over in the kernel log: Feb 7 14:45:11 romana kernel: lockd: task 172507 can't get a r

Re: Building custom kernel based off stock debian kernel

2002-02-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:49:29PM -0800, Nick Jennings wrote: > *Please CC me in the response as I am not subscribed to debian-user* > > Hello. > > I'd like to make a slight customization to the debian kernel. I do not > understand the debian packing scheme for getting the complete source >

Re: Installing a package interactively

2002-02-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 06:57:02AM -0800, Jim Woodruff wrote: > > > > > Another way is brows its content by "midnight commander" and copy files > > to appropriate directory. > > > I apologize for not being very clear with my question. This is my problem: > > I'm running a DEC Alpha using Debi

Re: video card

2002-02-07 Thread Timothy Burt
Hi, I believe the ATI xpert 2000 uses the rage 128 graphics engine, so the driver you want is r128. It should work nicely for you. Good luck! Tim On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:56:52PM +, Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > I plan to buy a computer equipped with a processor AMD Athlon xp 1600+. >

Re: Aviplay question

2002-02-07 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Fri, 08 Feb 2002 00:33:08 +0300 "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > > I am havihng trouble trying to play an DivX movie. > I usually play movies using aviplay, and it used to work. > But it failed this time... there is no sound. The complete aviplay output > is below

s bit on owner permission for dir

2002-02-07 Thread mike
Hi, I'm a little confused on the what the s bit does for the owner of a directory. For example drwsr-sr--joe staff /var/www I understand that the s bit on the group permission would make all new files and directories under /var/www have equal group ownership to /var/www but the s bi

Re: Help

2002-02-07 Thread Elizabeth Barham
yufufi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, Hi Furkan, You need to keep in mind that X uses a lot of memory. If you can hear your disk writing during these stalls, it may be that your system is using the swap partition as extra memory. For example, say you're using mozilla for X but then switch to

¿Se Ve Su Sitio Web?

2002-02-07 Thread ¡Mensaje Importante!
"¿Se Puede Ver Su Sitio Web?" ¿Es difícil encontrarlo? ¿Está usted en el fondo de las listas?       Quizas SU sitio Web NO está en muchos motores de búsqueda y está en el Fondo de sus listas de los Buscadores y como resultado USTED PIERDE a clientes nuevos que no pueden encontrarle a usted. ¿

Re: SpamBouncer

2002-02-07 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:52:03AM -0500, stan wrote: | Anyone know if SpamBouncer www.spambouncer.org is being mainatined? dunno | If not, any sugestions as to an alternate? http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/config_docs/exim_spamassassin.html -D -- Misfortune pursues the sinner, but prosperity is

video card

2002-02-07 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I plan to buy a computer equipped with a processor AMD Athlon xp 1600+. My vendor suggest me to use the video card ATI expert 2000 with linux (my dist is potato 2.2r2 with xfree 3 ) There is a lot of drivers ATI in the list. Is it possible that one of these drivers matches the ATI expert 200

Re: mysterious kernel panic at start up and it's workaround

2002-02-07 Thread dman
(I'll answer this only once, even though there are two parallel threads) On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 01:40:20PM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 12:22:47 -0500, dman wrote: | | >On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 06:01:34AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | > | >| I'm gonna feel pretty stupid about t

Building custom kernel based off stock debian kernel

2002-02-07 Thread Nick Jennings
*Please CC me in the response as I am not subscribed to debian-user* Hello. I'd like to make a slight customization to the debian kernel. I do not understand the debian packing scheme for getting the complete source to the DEBIAN linux kernel (i.e. all patches applied and the .config that is

Aviplay question

2002-02-07 Thread Nikita V. Youshchenko
Hello. I am havihng trouble trying to play an DivX movie. I usually play movies using aviplay, and it used to work. But it failed this time... there is no sound. The complete aviplay output is below. I see the error messages, but they are too cryptic for me ... Seems that this is the reason: ...

Re: W32/Myparty

2002-02-07 Thread dman
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 03:32:59AM +0800, csj wrote: | On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:06:52 -0500 | "Jeremy Gaddis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | > Gary, | > | > I also run Free Agent, though just for the newsgroups. | > My MUA of choice is Outlook (no flames please, I'm tired | > of them) and I have act

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ray Bowles
Before getting to the steps below how would one go about getting around the issue of my Microsoft Natural Pro Keyboard and Wireless Intellimouse Explorer not working in the install screens of 2.2_rev5. I can press enter at the boot: prompt when the CD boots up, but the first screen locks up. I thin

Re: kernel panic---operator panic too

2002-02-07 Thread Gary Turner
On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 14:47:14 -0500, Thomas R. Shemanske wrote: >I think your initrd line is misplaced. Since some kernels do not need >the line, you probably want it with each lilo entry > >For example from http://rute.sourceforge.net/node34.html, we see a lilo >entry of the form: > > >boot=/de

dns [summary]

2002-02-07 Thread Alexey
Solved. The summary: > There is a dnsutils package in Debian. Is contains some utilities. > Is it a Debian-specific software? No, dnsutils is part of bind9, which is not Debian-specific. Then again, it's not responsible for the system DNS resolver either - that's part of libc6. > I can connect t

perl and @INC

2002-02-07 Thread Richard P. Groenewegen
Hi, When I type perl -V , I get (among other things): @INC: /home/rpg/lib/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/s

Re: adding a nic

2002-02-07 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Mike! On Thu, 07 Feb 2002, Mike McCue wrote: > So without doing this, will the modprobe step from Chris still work ? > Reason I'm asking is I'll have to pound on a few different addresses to > find the card, from the sounds of this I'll need to reboot after changing > the addresses every t

wireless extensions and new pcmcia src package?

2002-02-07 Thread Shaya Potter
I just upgraded my kernel, and built a new pcmcia-modules package for it, and now wireless extensions (for things like iwconfig and the like) don't seem to be found! the card works fine in a sort of "default" way, i.e. I can get an ip, but I can't do anything that would require me changing an essi

symbol font rendering with galeon

2002-02-07 Thread Jesse Goerz
Does anybody know which package contains a symbol font with greek letters? Here's what I have on my box: dpkg --get-selections | grep font freefontinstall gsfonts install gsfonts-x11

Re: wmaker menu

2002-02-07 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 09:29:49AM -0200, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I would like to use the plain text menu, as suggest in the window maker > preferences program. I have read the /usr/share/doc/wmaker/README.preferences > and the ~/GNUstep/Defaults/WMRootMenu files without success. According t

Re: Changin Mozilla keybindings?

2002-02-07 Thread DvB
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I find Mozilla's keybindings arcane, and prefer the od Netscape bindings. > > Is tehre some way that I can change these? > I believe that can currently ony be done in the config files: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 15:04:34 -0500 (EST) Ray Bowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > *** On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 at 12:33pm Ron Johnson shared this with the class:: > > > One suggestion might be to do: > >apt-get -d dist-upgrade > >apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade > > > call me a n

Help

2002-02-07 Thread yufufi
Hi, I have a little problem with debian. Upto now I was using red-hat7.2 (and windows before that). While copying some data comp becomes unstable. If I'm listenin mp3 it stops. jumps.. Or while copying if I type I can't see the letters on the screen as quickly as it should be! Mouse pointer doesn't

Re: kernel panic---operator panic too

2002-02-07 Thread Gary Turner
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002 02:24:35 -0600, Gary Turner wrote: >I just upgraded the kernel to 2.4.17 in a deb package. The install >apparently went ok. On reboot I got the following: > >>request_module[block-major-31]: Root fs not mounted >>VFS: Cannot open root device "303" or 03:03 >>please append a c

Re: AW: command line font size ?

2002-02-07 Thread George Dancheff
man consolechars man setfont consolechars -h (see -H, -char-height= and others) --- "Dobrev, Evgeni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What do you mean? the console or the xterm? > One of the ways is the frame buffer? > > You might want to read > /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt > > hop

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Joey Hess([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Scott Henson wrote: > > I really would not recomend installing potato then > > dist-upgrading. Having tried that several time, I could > > never recomend that. > > How long ago, what went wrong, and did you report bugs? We put a lot of >

Re: Mutt

2002-02-07 Thread Henry House
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 12:13:12AM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 13:46:33 Adam Majer wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:26:55AM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > > > Thanks, Stephen, even now I get: > > > -rw-rw 1 ngterry mail > > > > > > If I want to delete mails in Mutt, I still

Re: Mutt

2002-02-07 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Terence Ng: > Stephen, > > Is it because I have not installed imap stuff? No - probably not. I think you've been bitten by a bug that I remember seeing. Here it is . . . # chown root:mail /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock # chmod 2755 /usr/bin/mutt_dotlock Somehow this got screwed up in a recent

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:33:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:47:55 -0600 (CST) Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > I've installed woody from potato via dist-upgrade "apt-get --fix-broken > > --show-upgraded dist-upgrade" now three times in the past year; twice on

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ray Bowles
*** On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 at 12:33pm Ron Johnson shared this with the class:: > One suggestion might be to do: >apt-get -d dist-upgrade >apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade > call me a newbie, but what would the exact lines be that someone should add to their sources.list file

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 11:47:55 -0600 (CST) Cheryl Homiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've installed woody from potato via dist-upgrade "apt-get --fix-broken > --show-upgraded dist-upgrade" now three times in the past year; twice on > my own machine and twice on others, and have allways been successfu

start of a new thing

2002-02-07 Thread Jesse Goerz
lib.tgz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I've installed woody from potato via dist-upgrade "apt-get --fix-broken --show-upgraded dist-upgrade" now three times in the past year; twice on my own machine and twice on others, and have allways been successful. The first time, dpkg couldn't preconfigure and I had to start installing packages on

Re: aacraid.o

2002-02-07 Thread Johannes Franken
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 05:55:20PM +0200, cut utter wrote: > I am having diffuculty loading a `aacraid' module into the kernel. > The module is compiled with 2.2.16-22 (RH7) kernel. [...] > boot diskette with kernel 2.2.14. [...] "unresoved symbol(s)". That's because your kernel version differs fr

Re: AW: command line font size ?

2002-02-07 Thread Jason M. Harvey
there's also some nice documentation on the web about this at: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html ~jason On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:35:27PM -0500, Jason M. Harvey wrote: | On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:19:23AM -0500, Mike McCue wrote: | | | | | | | | It was on the console, no X

Re: Mutt (related question about Mozilla)

2002-02-07 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 18:08, Paul E Condon,,, wrote: > > > Martin Wuertele wrote: > > > Hi Terence! > > > > On Fri, 08 Feb 2002, Terence Ng wrote: > > > > [...] > I'm curious as to how Terrance got Mozilla to read emails in > /var/spool/mail/ngterry. > I can't get my copy of Mozilla to set

Re: AW: command line font size ?

2002-02-07 Thread Jason M. Harvey
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:19:23AM -0500, Mike McCue wrote: | | | | It was on the console, no X here. It was even present at bootup (LILO... | then all the scrolling boot stuff)... Does your recommendation apply to | xterm or the console ? | | > | >What do you mean? the console or the xter

Re: realplayer security vulnerability

2002-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Russo wrote: > Because the 'realplayer' package does not actually contain anything > substantial in it, rather it is an installer package -- frankly > there's no entirely satisfactory solution. postinst pseudo-code: if [ `md5sum /dir/file.so` ne "201de7b7acbc467846fc9cd11ff90266" ]; then

Re: partition types

2002-02-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > OK, I've got a REALLY STUPID question here. :/ > > I decided recently that I wanted to try out the "Linux from Scratch" > project (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org). In order to do this particular > thang one has to create a reasonable si

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* Scott Henson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 22:04, Chris Kenrick wrote: > > What's the recommended approach for installing Woody > > these days? > > > > I really would not recomend installing potato then > dist-upgrading. Having tried that several time, I could > n

Changin Mozilla keybindings?

2002-02-07 Thread stan
I find Mozilla's keybindings arcane, and prefer the od Netscape bindings. Is tehre some way that I can change these? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

Re: Mutt (related question about Mozilla)

2002-02-07 Thread Paul E Condon,,,
Martin Wuertele wrote: Hi Terence! On Fri, 08 Feb 2002, Terence Ng wrote: I have just installed X environment and I can use Balsa or Mozilla to delete the mails in /var/spool/mail/ngterry. Can somebody teach me to delete mails by Mutt? Why I cannot just type 'd' or '^d' to delete mails

Re: Recommended approach for installing Woody

2002-02-07 Thread Joey Hess
Scott Henson wrote: > I really would not recomend installing potato then > dist-upgrading. Having tried that several time, I could > never recomend that. How long ago, what went wrong, and did you report bugs? We put a lot of effort into making upgrades to woody work well. -- see shy jo

Re: Mutt

2002-02-07 Thread Martin Wuertele
Hi Terence! On Fri, 08 Feb 2002, Terence Ng wrote: > I have just installed X environment and I can use Balsa or Mozilla to > delete the mails in /var/spool/mail/ngterry. Can somebody teach me to > delete mails by Mutt? Why I cannot just type 'd' or '^d' to delete > mails? is there some read

Re: Mutt

2002-02-07 Thread Sam Rosenfeld
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:26:55AM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > > > If I want to delete mails in Mutt, I still get "Mailbox is read-only". Why? You may have already checked your ".muttrc" file -- but, if not, it may have an entry that stipulates "readonly" or "read only". You will not be able

Re: adding a nic

2002-02-07 Thread Mike McCue
So without doing this, will the modprobe step from Chris still work ? Reason I'm asking is I'll have to pound on a few different addresses to find the card, from the sounds of this I'll need to reboot after changing the addresses every time. I have no problem doing this once I have the address

Re:

2002-02-07 Thread Emil Pedersen
cut utter wrote: > > Hello, > > I am having diffuculty loading a `aacraid' module into the kernel. > The module is for Dell's PERC RAID controller. The module is compiled > with 2.2.16-22 (RH7) kernel. Resulting 'o' file is copied to linux > boot diskette with kernel 2.2.14. Then when I boot a sy

Re: AW: command line font size ?

2002-02-07 Thread Mike McCue
It was on the console, no X here. It was even present at bootup (LILO... then all the scrolling boot stuff)... Does your recommendation apply to xterm or the console ? What do you mean? the console or the xterm? One of the ways is the frame buffer? You might want to read /usr/src/linu

Re: sendmail / yahoo problem

2002-02-07 Thread Greg Murphy
here's the output: debian:/home/randy# sendmail -bt -d0.13 On Thursday 07 February 2002 09:42, you wrote: > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Greg Murphy wrote: > > Greetings, > > for some reason sendmail will no longer let me send mail to yahoo > > addresses. All other mailing domains seem to work fine wit

Re: Mutt

2002-02-07 Thread Terence Ng
On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 13:46:33 Adam Majer wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 11:26:55AM +0800, Terence Ng wrote: > > Thanks, Stephen, even now I get: > > -rw-rw 1 ngterry mail > > > > If I want to delete mails in Mutt, I still get "Mailbox is read-only". Why? > > When I set up my /var/spool to

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